Waldemar

Waldemar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Waldemar in the 19th century. Compare Vladimir, from Slavic, and the Scandinavian name Valdemar.

Proper noun

Waldemar

1. (rare) A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 9:

     If, as a stranger in our land, you should require the aid of other judgment to guide your own, we can only say that Alicia, the daughter of our gallant knight Waldemar Fitzurse, has at our court been long held the first in beauty as in place.

Translations

male given name

Chinese: Cantonese: 華德馬 (waa4 dak1 maa5) Czech: Valdemar Danish: Valdemar Finnish: Valto (fi), Valdemar (fi) German: Waldemar Italian: Valdemaro (it) m Latvian: Voldemārs m, Valdemārs m Norwegian: Valdemar Polish: Waldemar (pl) Portuguese: Valdemar m, Valdemiro Spanish: Oldemar m Swedish: Valdemar (sv)

See also

• Vladimir

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German

Etymology

From an Old High German compound name, from the elements waltan (“rule, govern”) (from Proto-West Germanic *wald) + māri (“famous, great”) (from *mārī).[1]

Merged with Scandinavian Valdemar, apparently from the semantically and formally similar Slavic name *Voldiměrъ, which is sometimes considered to also derive from the same pre-Old High German name *waldimӕ̄r-.[1]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Waldemar

1. a male given name

References

1. Boris Paraschkewow, Wörter und Namen gleicher Herkunft und Struktur (2004, →ISBN), page 377 (entry "Waldemar")

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /valˈdɛ.mar/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmar
• Syllabification: Wal‧de‧mar

Etymology 1

From Old Danish rendering of Proto-Slavic *Voldiměrъ, reshaped like the semantically and formally similar Old Norse Valdimarr. Doublet of Włodzimierz.

Proper noun

Waldemar m pers (diminutive Waldek, feminine Waldemara)

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Waldemar

	singular	plural
nominative	Waldemar	Waldemarowie
genitive	Waldemara	Waldemarów
dative	Waldemarowi	Waldemarom
accusative	Waldemara	Waldemarów
instrumental	Waldemarem	Waldemarami
locative	Waldemarze	Waldemarach
vocative	Waldemarze	Waldemarowie

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Waldemar f

1. genitive plural of Waldemara

Further reading

• Waldemar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Waldemar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Waldemar m

1. a male given name, variant of Valdemar

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Swedish

Proper noun

Waldemar c (genitive Waldemars)

1. a male given name, a less common spelling of Valdemar